Alex Ovechkin says he is not fat

After a slouching Ovechkin seemed to show off an expanded belly during a Web interview earlier this summer, many Caps fans expressed public concern over his fitness, and a certain local sports radio host went on and on and on about Ovechkin’s commitment to training.

(Via Dmitry Chesnokov, who also provided the Lysenkov-snapped Ovechkin image below. No obvious flab. Though the shirt seems to be loose-fitting.)

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Dan SteinbergDan Steinberg is an editor and columnist for Sports and the founder of the D.C. Sports Bog. He joined The Washington post in 2001 and has covered high school and college sports, two Olympics, the Super Bowl, National Spelling Bee and New Zealand curling team. He became an editor in 2018. Follow